David Copperfield Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”
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“Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.”
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“The real secret of magic lies in the performance.”
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“My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.”
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“I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.”
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“All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.”
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“It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.”
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“In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.”
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“The most important thing is presentation.”
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“From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.”
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“I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.”
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“Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.”
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“Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.”
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“To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.”
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“Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.”
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“Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.”
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“Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.”
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“When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.”
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“No, I think marriage is a great thing.”
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“The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.”
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“You have to learn certain skills to present magic.”
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“The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.”
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“The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.”
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“Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.”
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“My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.”
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“The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.”
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“Never stop listening to your audience.”
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“You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.”
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“What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.”
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